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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Chooch
    You won't hear a better soundtrack on a bad movie this year.
  2. Gigli
    Gigli is a disaster.
  3. Maestro
    Filmmaker Josell Ramos has his heart in the right place, but his camera is usually in the wrong place, complete with bad lighting and all-around lousy tech credits.
  4. Vampires
    It's just as well that John Carpenter makes horror movies, because here's a horrifying thought picture James Woods as an action hero. [30 October 1998, p. 44]
    • New York Daily News
  5. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    What Short does not deserve - and neither do we - is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.
  6. Bubble Boy
    The bubble-boy niche is thankfully small. John Travolta began his career playing one in a TV movie, but this movie will undoubtedly finish off the genre for good.
  7. Daddy Day Camp
    If you're looking for a modern-day "Meatballs" - or, for that matter, "Meatballs 4" - you're out of luck.
  8. The Replacements
    You might want to sit out this season.
  9. Sex and Death 101
    In a fair universe, Sex and Death 101 would end its miserable life after one episode as a TV show. But this unfunny "dark comedy" goes on for two hours.
  10. Undead
    Gore fans will dig the makeup effects and some of the tongue-in-cheek slice-&-dice.
  11. The Medallion
    Evans fumbles through painfully extended homophobic jokes, weak double entendres and agonizingly contorted double-takes.
  12. Summer Catch
    It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom.
  13. The 13th Warrior
    Silly supernatural Viking epic.
  14. Stealing Harvard
    The question is, how did the producers get the amiable, talented Jason Lee to Boogie Board down the toilet with (Green)?
  15. Surviving Christmas
    Ben Affleck's goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas, a movie that makes "Gigli" look like one of the crowning moments in his career.
  16. Diamonds
    A depressingly hollow vehicle.
  17. The Hottie & the Nottie
    You've got to admire Hilton's complete conviction in herself as the center of all that is beautiful and good. And maybe such unwavering self-regard is actually kind of hot. Or not.
  18. Cradle 2 the Grave
    Overall the tone is dark and nasty, exemplified by the inelegant signature kung-fu move of the good guys -- a backward kick to the groin.
  19. Monkeybone
    A shell of a romantic fantasy festooned with characters inspired by and resembling those in the bar scene in "Star Wars," the waiting room in "Beetlejuice" and the circus in "A Bug's Life."
  20. Revoloution
    Less a movie than an 80-minute promo for a self-help program for the seriously desperate.
  21. Chasing Liberty
    The screenwriters claim they got the idea for this dreary thing by glimpsing a besieged Chelsea Clinton in the stands at a basketball game.
  22. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.
  23. Walking on the Sky
    Earnest but practically unwatchable movie. I haven't spent an hour and a half with worse company since high school detention.
  24. The Fog
    The fog also does something genuinely eerie: It causes everyone in the cast to deliver dreadful performances and display inappropriate reactions when their friends are drowned, burned, stabbed or thrown into glass display cases.
  25. Radio
    What really makes the jaw drop is the presence of so many talented actors in what seems like traditional TV treacle. Saddest of all is Debra Winger, reduced to playing the wife-as-wallpaper role. For this she came back to Hollywood?
  26. Juwanna Mann
    A postseason basketball comedy that shoots and misses at a rate that would embarrass even the Los Angeles Clippers.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Coming Soon
    A deadly script.
  28. The One
    An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
  29. Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption.
  30. Norbit
    It's hard to know who is the intended audience for this misguided mess.
  31. Thunderbirds
    Not only achingly dull, it has no respect for its origins.
  32. Dragonfly
    A stinker of epic proportions.
    • New York Daily News
  33. Human Error
    The movie's a botch, but at least it'll make you feel good about your own daily drudgery.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Waterboy
    Working a lisping Southern accent that sounds like Truman Capote on Seconal, Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, a swamp-dwelling Cajun. [6 November 1998, p. 56]
    • New York Daily News
  35. Molly
    Derivative to the point of distraction.
  36. Harry + Max
    Too superficial to shock or surprise.
  37. Shadow Hours
    A cheaply voyeuristic story whose "twist" is hardly worth the wait.
  38. Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
    Apparently, the show’s appeal is due to the good-heartedness of its undereducated anti-heroes, but their kind of dumb grows old fast.
  39. Big Trouble
    A mediocre movie that will be wiped from its stars' résumés with head-spinning speed.
    • New York Daily News
  40. Besotted
    A failed experiment in magical realism that makes you wonder where the magic went.
  41. Pumpkin
    Witless, insulting satire of sorority girls that shamelessly ridicules the mentally challenged. The filmmakers aren't exactly Mensa candidates themselves.
    • New York Daily News
  42. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    To pay for all the explosions and stunt work, the filmmakers must have decided to skimp on the screenplay. The rule of thumb is that one page of script equals one minute of movie, but there is so little dialogue in Ballistic that it could have been written on a matchbook.
  43. Boat Trip
    Cuba Gooding Jr. can just return his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar right now. He has no excuse for making Boat Trip, a perniciously unfunny comedy.
  44. Taxi
    Bad as he is, Fallon cannot claim Taxi's worst moment. That belongs to Ann-Margret.
  45. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    It all makes the head spin -- in the direction of the exit sign.
  46. Pulse
    Hideously ugly to look at and not even worth following.
  47. Boarding Gate
    A ridiculous poseur thriller that seems to be made up of the slow moments from Hong Kong action films and Euro-flashy stuff like "Run Lola Run."
  48. Soul Plane
    Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy.
  49. The New Wizard of Oz
    You may need fortification for this astonishingly bad movie.
  50. The Sculptress
    Close call as to who's career has sunk farthest.
  51. I Am Sam
    It's a difficult issue, one that is not well served by a hollow confection like I Am Sam.
  52. Blackwoods
    Cheesy horror flick that feels like straight-to-video material.
    • New York Daily News
  53. Underworld: Evolution
    The esteemed actor Derek Jacobi goes slumming as someone who pulls that metal badge from the chest of a cadaver. Shakespeare it's not.
  54. Buddy Boy
    If you want pretentious and unsavory, check out Buddy Boy.
  55. Wake
    Given a plot and dialogue that ring entirely false, we're left with a bunch of unpleasant characters who do unpleasant things for no apparent reason. Enjoy.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Simon Sez
    Rodman makes former co-star Jean-Claude Van Damme look like Jean-Paul Belmondo.
  57. Boricua's Bond
    If you haven't had enough of the Central Park rampage videos showing human nature at its worst, you could always pay to see Boricua's Bond.
  58. Party Monster
    Macaulay Culkin still can't act, and it's no longer cute. His performance in Party Monster is so embarrassing one doesn't know where to look.
  59. DOA: Dead or Alive
    "Charlie's Angels," "Survivor," "American Gladiators" and "Girls Gone Wild" are just some of the bad influences on Hong Kong action director Corey Yuen's laughably silly adaptation of the video game DOA: Dead or Alive.
  60. Close Your Eyes
    Adapted - badly and unfaithfully - Close Your Eyes is a convoluted jumble of paranormal psychology, occultism and pagan symbolism, topped off with a quest for immortality.
  61. Slackers
    Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing.
  62. Two Weeks Notice
    Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant are distilled to the very essence of their annoying tics and quirks.
  63. The Notebook
    Two hours of the worst sort of sentimental sap.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Splendor
    A fair amount of laughs and a spunky dose of charm from the three leads, which adds up to some meaningless, if perverted, fun.
  65. Big Bad Love
    If the point of this umpteenth posttraumatic stress drama is that war is hell, even years after it's over and you're sitting in a movie theater, Big Bad Love makes it.
    • New York Daily News
  66. Deuces Wild
    Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland.
  67. The Haunted Mansion
    A tepid comedy whose only saving grace is the face of Jennifer Tilly in a crystal ball.
  68. Daltry Calhoun
    A weird, unpleasant little movie.
  69. This Ain't No Heartland
    This is as cheesy and irrelevant as political documentaries get. Horvath, who is openly critical of the invasion of Iraq, makes game of a handful of Iowans and Nebraskans who are either too dumb, too drunk or too uninterested to have an informed opinion about it.
  70. Bad Company
    The main problem with this whole Jerry Bruckheimer-produced mess is that they took a promising comedy setup and squandered it by trying to make a legitimate spy thriller out of it.
    • New York Daily News
  71. Descent
    There is no excusing date rape, but the revenge conceived and executed by Rosario Dawson's Maya in this revolting, amateurish drama is something you might only wish on Osama Bin Laden.
  72. Men Cry Bullets
    The acting is more amateurish than Billy's diva act, and for all its ambitious editing, the film looks like something made in the Addams Family's attic.
  73. The Body
    Just about every race and creed come off badly in this small-scale thriller.
  74. Scary Movie 2
    The Worst Comedy of the Year race heats up today with the release of Keenen Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie 2. This one is so bad, even Adam Sandler will be impressed.
  75. Palindromes
    This is extremely dark and politically loaded material.
  76. Jersey Guy
    This badly written, badly directed and badly acted little movie about an ordinary guy from Jersey who discovers passion with a fashion plate in Manhattan looks great.
  77. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    The actual fights between the predators and the serpents are too silly to contemplate. Both shiny and metallic, they look like kitchen appliances fighting it out. That's when you can see them. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ("Resident Evil") has created the darkest, if not worst, sci-fi movie since "Battlefield Earth."
  78. Pizza
    At the end of her spontaneous date, she says it's been the best night of her life. It will not be one of yours.
  79. Kill by Inches
    Boring is too active a verb to describe this minimalist psychological thriller.
  80. Godzilla 2000
    For devout fans of the greenish monster and for those looking to shoot fish in a barrel.
  81. Silent Hill
    The worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously.
  82. Lost Souls
    His (Kaminski) first feature is so thoroughly awful, it isn't even interesting to look at.
  83. Sorry, Haters
    So misguided as to be genuinely mystifying, Jeff Stanzler's queasily blended political psychodrama isn't simply a lousy movie. It's also a lousy movie that boldly exploits the events of 9/11.
  84. Fat Albert
    Somewhere in its quest to be educational, Fat Albert forgot to be entertaining.
  85. Love at Times Square
    Dev Anand's unintentionally hilarious Bollywood romance would be considered terrible by any artistic standard, but it serves as proof that sometimes the worst films make for the most fun.
  86. Mr. Magoo
    CRUSHingly unfunny. [24 Dec 1997, p.34]
    • New York Daily News
  87. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    Both a fan's dream and a moviegoer's nightmare: It ends up being all about those who remember and interpret Philip K. Dick and not about the man himself.
  88. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Features even more toddlers acting in a way only collectors of velvet paintings will consider irresistible.
  89. See Spot Run
    It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!"
  90. Clifford's Really Big Movie
    A really lame attempt to expand the marketing reach of the PBS-TV series.
  91. The Musketeer
    The Musketeer is the worst Hollywood period film in -- it seems like ages since "American Outlaws."
  92. Big Fat Liar
    There are lame comedies, and then there is Big Fat Liar, which is so lame that it merits its own reserved parking space.
    • New York Daily News
  93. Fear of Fiction
    So clumsy and unfocused that not getting it isn't half as bad as sitting through it.
  94. The Price of Air
    In this unpleasant mess of a movie, a heroin-like drug called "blue" is said to be "more addictive than air."
  95. Sonny
    Shows what can happen when a bunch of good actors get together without adult supervision. They emote all over the place, banging into each other, talking too loud, knocking over furniture, wallowing in clichés and otherwise behaving like rank amateurs.
  96. The Hillside Strangler
    Here's one for the Sick Voyeurs Club.
  97. 10,000 BC
    10,000 B.C. tries, but never catches fire.
  98. The Forsaken
    Vampire movies aren't what they used to be. How about a little mist, some shadows, some pale gray faces set off by stark red lips? Maestro, a little Transylvanian mood music, if you please.
  99. Are We There Yet?
    The affable Ice Cube is all that makes this forced, unfunny film watchable, and, frankly, it's hard watching him waste his efforts on a movie so woefully cynical.
  100. Timeline
    An instant contender for cult status on the midnight-movie circuit, where lines like "Do we look like quantum wormhole specialists?" will be given the respect they deserve.
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